Journal

Month: May 2014

Today is Duck culling time, so no piccy’s today, it was long and as usual with killing anything emotionally draining but yesterday I decided the trailer we recently purchased wasn’t big enough, so I went about and made a cage for the trailer, this will allow us to get more feed and other materials on [Continue]

Yes yes I know I said I would post on the following day but a family of 6 needs to eat and bad weather kept us from our task, so wet weather and shopping day put us back. But I finally made some head way, yesterday I mocked up the setup by calculating the height [Continue]

Finally, I have finally gotten of my bum and started the rocket mass heater for inside the shack, We are building a small 6″, 60Ltr barrel setup as the space we have is quite small and we don’t overly feel the cold much, but its nice to take the chill off when it does get [Continue]

Todays post is just a little one, it is about one of my latest “Make something so I dont go crazy” projects. I am making a home forge for metal work, and as such I need a way to pump air into the forge (once its built) so the next couple of photos are just [Continue]

Today was a busy day, out getting some winter hay for the poop machines, more to get next week as funds become available, for those of you who don’t know The Nymph and I are both currently doing distance courses, Mrs Nymph is studying an Advanced Diploma of western herbal medicines while I am studying [Continue]

Good morrow gentile peoples, how are we this fine blogging day. This is just a small post to give a heads up on the progress of our homestead, We enlarged the greenhouse (not by much, but more than we had), we have placed one of the recycled irrigation pipe planters inside the greenhouse and are [Continue]